Share your open source expertise with the community
Join the ranks of published technical experts in the Aiven developer community, build your professional profile and grow your network.
What are the benefits?
Build your profile
Show your expertise in the field and gain recognition for your content within the expert communities. We will share your content on various Aiven channels and feature your social media links.
Grow your skills
Create a piece on an open source topic of your choice, and we'll offer support with the writing and presentation skills.
Give back and get rewarded
Get a set of Aiven awesome swag and one of the following gifts:
- Extra credit for your Aiven account
- A donation to your favorite charity
- A ticket to our next Uptime event
Collaborate with us
We’re looking for experts and enthusiasts interested in sharing their knowledge on open source tech, data infrastructure management, or data architecture. Tell us what you have in mind, and we’ll support you along the way.
Anyone! Even if you haven't written anything before, we encourage you to start - tell us what you have in mind, and we'll support you along the way.
So you've decided to start writing - where to begin? We recommend building your article around personal experience, which always gives a powerful and practical angle to your content. The key is to keep your content relevant, solution-focused, replicable, and usable for developers, DevOps or platform engineers, and data professionals.
Here are some thoughts to kick you off:
- Use cases and experiences in using open source data infrastructure
- How to build a specific solution leveraging open source data infrastructure
- Thought leadership on open source technologies, data infrastructure management, data architect
- Apply - Submit your ideas via this form. We will review your submission quickly. The goal is to hear what you want to create and how we can best support you.
- Collaborate & Create - Once your submission has been reviewed, we will schedule a short kick-off call to work on the content outline.
- Review & Revise - You can start drafting your content, and our team will help you to review it.
- Publish - When the content is approved, we will publish your content on different channels. We can also share it on external channels depending on the topic and content type.
- Get rewarded - You can choose your reward among the ones Aiven offers!
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